Saturday, February 23, 2008

"How about Barbizon, I said.


How about a tall, yellow
butterscotch coop
at the Balmoral Hotel
in Edinburgh? Now
that's something you could
dive into and come up
with a mouthful of feathers
all aflutter. No, she said, Ashes
of Roses, you know
the clinking of a tea set
on a Mexican veranda?"

Richard Garcia, Ashes of Roses

You can read the whole poem here.
(Art by Dan Amell).

2 comments:

L.P. Jones said...

Incredible....

I don't want to say much, just admire this Laura. Modern poetry at its best. Thank you.

Layers of lessons here.

e

Laura said...

Thanks for stopping by, e. I'm currently reading Richard Garcia's The Persistence of Objects, and finding gem after gem.
~Laura